alt Hacker NewsAnyone who designs such a system should know to use an exponential backoff to avoid the thundering herd. Maybe copilot missed that while it was reviewing its own PR
Anyone who designs such a system should know to use an exponential backoff to avoid the thundering herd. Maybe copilot missed that while it was reviewing its own PR
Exponential backoff is the wrong answer in a highly available system in the typical case where (a) failure is expected and (b) you have nodes you are supposed to fail over to.